The Vāsiṣṭha Bridge — a research program by Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha Hypnotherapy (YVH) is the first clinical model to integrate the Supreme Yoga — the Sanskrit tradition's most complete theory of therapeutic imagination — with the modern science of hypnosis, and to measure its endpoint: Fundamental Peace.
Professor of Practice, Yogananda School of Spirituality and Happiness, Shoolini University · Founder & President, World Happiness Foundation · ORCID 0009-0005-3222-6092
The Yoga Vāsiṣṭha (Mokṣopāya) teaches through sixty-four stories that experienced worlds are mind-made, that latent impressions (vāsanā) sustain suffering, and that disciplined imagination (bhāvanā) dissolves them. Queen Cūḍālā — who awakens her husband through staged experience, role, and parable — is the tradition's own hypnotherapist.
Modern hypnotherapy independently validated the operative core: suggestion, expectancy, and absorption reorganize attention, emotion, and memory, with meta-analytic evidence across pain, anxiety, depression and more — and a founding lineage that runs through India.
The integration ends somewhere measurable. The text's liberation-in-life (jīvanmukti) is operationalized as Fundamental Peace — flexible attention, emotional coherence, freedom from self-referential rigidity, compassionate self-awareness — assessed by the FP20 scale.
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Seven stages of knowledge set beside seven depths of trance, with the integration zone named at each rung — and the epistemic limits of that correspondence stated plainly.
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Behavioral Sciences, 16(3), 395
Under revision for journal submission
Academic book chapter, Shoolini University — submitted
Five hypotheses, stated as proposals to be tested — not as findings.
Ten billion free, conscious & happy by 2050 — one settled mind at a time.
Write to luismiguel@shooliniuniversity.com
Researchers, clinicians and institutions are welcome to write. Replication, data-sharing and site partnerships for the trials in progress are all open conversations.
Educational and scholarly content. Hypnotherapy and regression material is complementary and not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care.
